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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARION T. DECK, OF MILTON, INDIANA.

WIRE FENCING.

SPECIFICATION forming* part f Letters Patent NO. 565,966, dated August 18, 1896. Application filed February 14, 1894. Serial No. 500,180. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, MARION T. DECK, a citizenV of the United States, residing at Milton, in the county of Vayne and State of Indiana have' invented a new and useful Combination-Fence, of which the following is-a specification. Y

Myinvention relates to improvements in fences, and especially to that class thereof commonly known as wire fences.

The objects and advantages of the invention, together with the novel features thereof, will hereinafterappear, and be particularly pointed out vin the claims. y

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete fence, those parts located underground being shown by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail in plan of the Fig. 3 is a detail illustrating the manner of applying the wire stays. Fig. 4is a detail of one of the anchoring-disks. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the upper end of one of the posts and an adjacent brace previous toits application. Fig. 6` is a detail of a portable base that may be employed for the intermediate posts. Fig. 7 is a similar view of s uch a base as would be employed for an end or corner post. Fig. 8

is a horizontal sectional view through one ofA the posts and its brace, illustrating'the manner of attaching the same. r

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The end post 1 is formed of sheet metal and is corrugated longitudinally or vertically, as shown, the convened surface of its central corrugation being toward the proposed fence. This post is preferably mounted on a square metal base 2, which is preferably cast. The base is provided upon its underside with a series of gradually-diminishing flanges 3. The lower extremity of the base thus constructed is provided with an arrow-headed point 4.

A metal anchoring-disk 6 is provided with an elliptical hole '7, and after its application to the arrow-headed point is given a quarter turn, whereby it is held in position and aids the post in resisting any side strains. In

order to render further aid to the post in resisting the tension of Vthe line-wires, I may employ a horizontally-disposed plat-e8, locating the same above the base 2 and `resting upon the latter.

In advance of and in line with the post 1 is set in the ground a cast plate 9, the same h. ving upon its upper side a vertical securely; braced flange 10. To the flange 10 I secure a pair of inclined braces 11, the upper ends of which are passed through openings 12 formed in the outer edges of the posts 1 at a suitable distance from the ground. These braces, as best shown in Fig. 5, where they are shown in another relation, are formed of sheet metal bent into substantially semicircular form and having their ends flattened, and therefore reduced, as at 13, and separated so as to enter the openings 12, and subsequently be bent or clenched.

At the opposite side of the post 1 at which the cast plate 9 is located there is located the cast plate 14. (See Figs. 1 and 2.) This plate 14 is provided upon its upper side with a pair of opposite bearing-flanges 15, in which is loosely seated for rotation a shaft 16, one end of which is squared to receive a wrench for turning the same. The shaft carries aratchetwheel17, and supported loosely upon a short transverse shaft, also supported by one of the flanges 15 and an intermediate flange, are a long and a short pawl 18, which are designed to ride loosely over the teeth of the ratchet-wheel and alternately engage the same.

A pair of anchoring-wires 19 are passed through the ange 10 of the plate 9, and beyond the same are provided with means for retaining them in position. The opposite ends of the wires embrace the post 1, pass over the upper edge of the plate 8, and are made fast and Wound upon the shaft 16, by means of which they are placed and kept undertension, so that, as will be apparent, the wires serveto prevent arly upward movement of the post 1.

At a suitable distance from the post 1 and turned at an angle thereto is the intermediate post 20. This post is also formed of longitudinally-corrugated sheet metal and maybe mounted similarly tothe post 1. In the present instance, however, it is simply buried in the ground and is provided at intervals with Openings 21 in its central conveXed portion and with a much larger lower opening 22.

, with transverse slots 38.

In the lower or largest opening of the series, and designated as 22, is a transverse resisting-plate 24, and this and the line-wires are held in position by means of a vertical locking-rod 25, which is located in the central corrugation of the post 20, and therefore prevents either the line-wires or the plate 24 from leaving their respective openings. The ends of the rod may or may not be bent over the ends of the post, as preferred.

An inclined brace 26 (see Figs. l and 8) may be employed for strengthening the post 20. The same is preferably formed of sheet metal and bent longitudinally into substantially U shape in cross-section. The lower end of the brace is buried in the ground and the upper end bifurcated and its branches passed through openings in the post and clenched therebeyond, all as indicated at 27, Fig. 8.

Located centrally between the end and intermediate posts l and 20, respectively, is the sheet-metal stay 28, which is constructed similarly to the intermediate post 20, that is, is provided with the corresponding wire-receiving openings 29, the locking-rod 30, and is corrugated longitudinally. The lower end of this stay is above the ground. (See Fig. l.)

Arranged between the sheet-metal stays 28 and the end and intermediate posts I and 2O are the pairs of wire stays 3l. These wire stays are preferably formed of short sections of wire flexibly jointed, as at 32, by means of interlocking eyes, and between the eyes provided with the large bends 33, as best illustrat-ed in Fig. 3.

To apply the stays, the bends 35,with which they are provided at intervals, are each engaged under a line-wire, after which the loops or bent portions 33 are engaged by a suitable hand-tool and coiled about the line-wire adjacent thereto. This construction of wire stay, it will be observed, can be most expeditiously applied and can be cheaply manufactured and sold, so that I do not limit its application to the construction of fence herein shown anddescribed.

The sheet-metal corner-posts 36 are provided with the longitudinally -disposed and centrally-located corrugation 37,and its entire corrugated portion is at intervals provided In each of these slots is located a grooved pulley or disk 39, around which. the line-wires freely pass, being retained in the grooves ofl said pulleys or disks. Each disk is mounted for movement upon an axis 40, which takes bearing in the corrugation of the post and is held in position by the tension of the line-wires.

The corner-post may be mounted upon any suitable-base, and in the present instance is mounted upon the same style of base as the end post l, (similar numerals of reference indicating corresponding parts in each,) so that a detail description is not necessary.

It is often desirable to construct the fence embodying my features in such a manner as to render the same portable, and I have therefore illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8 modiiied constructions of bases for the intermediate and end posts, respectively. In the rst-mentioned figure, 4l designates a pair of baseplates, which are connected by an intermediate vertical web portion 42, these three parts being cast integral. To one end of the web portion there is pivoted, as at 43, the lower end of the intermediate post. The opposite end of the web portion is preferably longitudinally slotted, as indicated at 44, and in the same there is arranged adjustably a bolt 45, which passes through the lower end of a brace 4G, and which it serves to adjust. Such a construction as described, it will be observed, renders the intermediate post portable, it being understood that when the post is set the base will be underground.

In Fig. 7, 47 designates a pair of plates which are connected by and cast integral with a web portion 48, whose opposite ends are provided with corresponding slots 49, in which are located adjustably bolts 50. The bolts pass through the lower ends of a pair of converging braces 51, whose upper ends are connected to the end post 52. rlhe lower end of the post 52 has cast thereto an end piece 53, upon whose under side lugs or ears 54 are formed, the same embracing and being pivoted to the web portion 48 by a pivotingbolt 55. Back of this post is a base-plate 56, upon whose upper side is formed a vertical standard 57, the same being L-shaped, as at 58, at its upper end. An inclined brace 59 is interposed between the upper end of this standard and the post 52, and the anchoringwires GO, similar to those shown in Fig. l, are employed and occupy the same position.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have produced a light, easilyconstructed, cheap, and strong fence, one that is wholly composed of metal, and which is therefore highly durable.

Having described my invention, what I claim is*- l. The corrugated sheet-metal post mounted upon a base and a vertical plate seated on the base in advance of the post and bearing against the edges of the latter, in combination with a iianged base-plate located at one side of the post, braces between the same and post, a tension device at the opposite side of the post,and anchoring-wires connected to the tension device and the hanged base-plate and passing over the vertical plate at opposite sides of the post, substantially as specified.4

2. The combination with a fence-post having a base, of a flanged plate located in advance thereof, braces between the same and post, a metal plate having bearing-flanges located at the opposite side of the post, a winding-shaft journaled in the flanges, a ratchet-wheel located thereon, long and short gravity-pawls pivoted between the flanges and adapted to alternately engage the teeth IIO of the Wheel, and anchoring-Wires connected With the flanged base-plate, passed over the base of the post and at their opposite ends connected to said Winding-shaft, substantially as specified.

3. The combination with a sheet-metal corrugated fence-post, the saine being provided with a pair of openings at opposite sides of its central corrugation, of an inclined brace formed of sheet metal and U-shaped in crosssection, the upper end of the brace being bifurcated and its branches laterally disposed and passed through said openings and clenched therebeyond, substantially as specied.

MARION T. DECK.

Vitnesses: GEORGE W. DECK, WILLIAM H. DECK. 

